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Apr 4, 2013 · Junot Díaz, a Dominican-American writer and professor at MIT, spoke last Friday evening in an event co-sponsored by Hopkins’ Program in Latin American Studies, the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of English.
Junot Díaz on imagination, language, success, the role of the teacher, the health of American literature and Star Wars as a narrative teaching tool. Paige Williams. To hear the novelist Junot Díaz talk about writing is to have your mind augured open to new ways of processing the human experience and to feel swept up in the poetics of the real.
While he experiences language as a parallel state of belonging and dislocation, the hybrid idiom he traffics in belongs to no one else. From his searing, swaggering fiction, one might expect Díaz's linguistic experience to be as frictionless as his prose.
Junot Díaz has gained much attention for his pervasive themes of social, cultural, and linguistic identity through his multilingual writing. In “Invierno,” This Is How
The present study reads Junot Díaz’s “Invierno,” a short story from This Is How You Lose Her (2012), with a focus on the oral code-switches that the bilingual Latino/a characters make from English—their second language (L2)—to Spanish—their first language (L1).
May 4, 2013 · Díaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic in 1968 and immigrated to New Jersey as a child, speaks a language that is as hybrid as that of many of his fictional characters. With his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, he made a place for himself in American letters and has been widely acclaimed in Latin America, as well.
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Growing up Diaz struggled greatly with learning the English language. He comments that it "was a miserable experience" for him, especially since it seemed that all of his other siblings "acquired the language in a matter of months; in some ways it felt overnight".
